Nurturing the Wild Heart

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!  My parents flag flying in their yard under the loblolly pines I grew up with. As I was mowing the lawn, I noticed all the colors that the garden is bursting with today! I wanted to share all these beauties with you! If you have some amazing plant pretties in your garden please share them in the comments!!  Beautiful Huge Zinnia I think this is a Snow in Summer but I am not 100%. It came in a packet of wildflower seeds. Delicious Spiderwort Flowers Butterfly Bush Flowers with their heavenly, honey scent. Smaller Zinnia in our wagon garden. Small baby Marigold Flower. The Elder is in bloom big time! It is HUGE! Our purple Crepe Myrtle. Blazing Star is glorious! Yummy and Beautiful Nasturtium. Virginia Dayflowers that happily grow where ever you don't mow. Our pink Crepe Myrtle. I absolutely love how the Crepe Myrtles always bloom this year! It is like fireworks in our backyard! ...

It is almost that time of year mamas and papas! Usually once the kids go back to school it isn't long until they start sharing things. Nasty things.....GERMS!! Don't panic though. There are some natural things you can do to boost up their little bodies so they are better protected and to take care of them at home if they do get a bug.  1. Stay away from too much sugar.   I know I sound like an evil person especially with Halloween right around the corner, but how many of us have had kids get sick right after a big holiday like Halloween or Christmas when they have had extra yummies. It really slows down the immune system. Not just candy and junk food but juice is another thing to limit or eliminate. 2. Try to introduce some good bacteria. The gut health of our country isn't very good as a whole. It can be blamed on any number of things from the chemicals in our water, our over use of anti-bacterial EVERYTHING, our over use of antibiotics not only in our own...